Shirley

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 15 Mar 2024 · English

Shirley Chisholm makes a trailblazing run for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination after becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.

Jesus Revolution

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 23 Feb 2023 · English

In the 1970s, aimless teenager Greg Laurie searches for all the right things in all the wrong places until he meets Lonnie Frisbee, a charismatic hippie/street preacher. Together with local pastor Chuck Smith, they open the doors of a languishing church to an unexpected revival.

Skin

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 24 Jul 2009 · English

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

Erin Brockovich

Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 17 Mar 2000 · English

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.

Uprising

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 4 Nov 2001 · English

In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

Fatima

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 13 Aug 2020 · English

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Movie · 7.9 / 10 · 14 Feb 2019 · English

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

Call Jane

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 27 Oct 2022 · English

A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.

The Hurricane

Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 17 Sept 1999 · English

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

If These Walls Could Talk

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 11 Sept 1996 · English

A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a recently widowed nurse struggling to take control of her life in the early 50s, a mother of four balancing raising a family and maintaining a career in the 70s, and a student making a difficult decision with the help of one woman that will change the course of both their lives in the 90s.

Awakenings

Movie · 7.8 / 10 · 4 Dec 1990 · English

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.

Something the Lord Made

Movie · 7.9 / 10 · 30 May 2004 · English

A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.